Hi Hayley, it's so great to be in touch with you. I loved reading this perspective. The intergenerational contrasting of 'timelines' is so interesting. I suppose there is always 'progress' (or at least there would have been between our mothers and grandmothers) but it's sped up a crazy amount – I always think about how women couldn't have bank accounts outside of a man's name before 1975, just as one example. So it really is our generation that it has changed for.
But then, on the flip side, so many people will legitimately still subscribe to those milestones – the 'acceptable' ones – and yet we've somehow created a society/financial landscape where they are so widely inaccessible – the irony! It's such an interesting time in socio-economic history and I'm looking forward to reading The Blocks and seeing how you explore that.
Francesca x
p.s. just read you've worked as a Spanish translator among other amazing things – what a dream job!
Hi Hayley, it's so great to be in touch with you. I loved reading this perspective. The intergenerational contrasting of 'timelines' is so interesting. I suppose there is always 'progress' (or at least there would have been between our mothers and grandmothers) but it's sped up a crazy amount – I always think about how women couldn't have bank accounts outside of a man's name before 1975, just as one example. So it really is our generation that it has changed for.
But then, on the flip side, so many people will legitimately still subscribe to those milestones – the 'acceptable' ones – and yet we've somehow created a society/financial landscape where they are so widely inaccessible – the irony! It's such an interesting time in socio-economic history and I'm looking forward to reading The Blocks and seeing how you explore that.
Francesca x
p.s. just read you've worked as a Spanish translator among other amazing things – what a dream job!